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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Episodes

Celluloid and Concurrency (Interview)

Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Tony Arcieri , creator of Celluloid. Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby. Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors. DCell lets you build distributed Cell...

May 31, 201240 min

Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Adam recently married the lovely Heather . Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog . Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT...

May 23, 201225 min

Adhearsion, Telephony, XMPP (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of the Adhearsion project to talk about Adhearsion 2.0, the future of telephony apps, XMPP, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Ben Klang Principal/Technology Strategist at Mojo Lingo, Project Lead for Adhearsion. Ben Langfeld developer at Mojo Lingo, member of Adhearsion core team. Adhearsion is an ope...

Apr 13, 201241 min

CocoaPods and MacRuby (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Eloy Durán , Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods. CocoaPods , “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.” CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies. E...

Apr 05, 201236 min

Solarized and Linux on the Desktop (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized. Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for us...

Mar 30, 20121 hr 4 min

.NET, NuGet, Open Source (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Phil Haack , GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy. NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio. log4net is often an open sour...

Mar 16, 201235 min

Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community. Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial code...

Mar 06, 201241 min

The League of Moveable Type (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Micah Rich , from The League of Movable Type . Caroline Hadilaksono , co-founder of The League. League Gothic , one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s ...

Feb 23, 201253 min

tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development , out now from PragProg . Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot . Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby. tmux is a terminal ...

Feb 17, 201238 min

Vagrant and virtualized environments (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Mitchell Hashimoto – Website , GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: We’re now @ TheChangelog on Twitter. Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant . Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by pr...

Feb 09, 201226 min

Spine and Client-Side MVC (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Alex MacCaw – Website , GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Alex MacCaw , O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter. Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbo...

Dec 20, 201123 min

Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments. Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powe...

Dec 07, 201135 min

Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Sean Schofield , Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc. Brian Quinn , long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the...

Nov 03, 201147 min

Growl and Open Source in the App Store (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass Chris Forsythe is the proj...

Oct 11, 201144 min

HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google. Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source , all around JavaScript, frontend ...

Aug 19, 201158 min

RVM and BDSM (Interview)

Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Steve Klabnik – Website , GitHub , X Show Notes: Look us up at LSRC V next week. Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI. Wayne Seguin , developer at EngineYard , creator of RVM and BDSM. ...

Aug 04, 201158 min

Code for America (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @ TheSassWay for your Sass n...

Jul 26, 20111 hr

Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs , Adapt , Formalize , and featured in Episode 0.3.2 Sam Stephenson , programmer at 37signals , creator of massive amounts of open source. Pow is a zero-config Rack server for...

Jul 13, 20111 hr 2 min

CDNJS (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network. We’re now part of the Fusion Network Catch up with us at T...

Jun 21, 201138 min

IronJS, F#, and .NET (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F# Fredrik Holmström , creator of IronJS F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve compl...

Jun 02, 201132 min

Oh My Zsh (Interview)

Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Robby Russell – GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon Derek Sivers from CD...

May 26, 201151 min

Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Wesley Beary aka @ geemus The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage , DN...

May 20, 201122 min

RubyGems and RubyGems.org (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Nick Quaranto , creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Tom Preston-Warner , founder of GitHub RubyForge was the...

May 11, 201120 min

Twisted and Evented Programming in Python (Interview)

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary . Glyph says Twisted ...

May 03, 201134 min

Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery. Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Mike Hostetle...

Apr 27, 201145 min

Vim round table discussion (Interview)

Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Drew Neil – Website , GitHub , X Yehuda Katz – Website , GitHub , X Tim Pope – GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi Drew Neil hosts VimCasts Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins ...

Apr 12, 201142 min

Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Ilya Grigorik – Website , GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf . Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank. PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web. igvita.com is Ilya’s a...

Apr 06, 201151 min

Erlang, CouchBase, merging with Membase (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Chris Anderson – GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less) Chris sings the off...

Mar 30, 201145 min

Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition" (Interview)

Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: Nathan Smith , front end dev, speaker, and author 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework Formalize teaches your forms some manners An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills Formalize even comes with Sass s...

Mar 22, 201150 min

Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Interview)

Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: John Long of Wiseheart design Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications John created RadiantCMS , later extended by Sean C...

Mar 16, 20111 hr 2 min
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